here is my 2 minute speech that I was invited to give at the the Sapphire Club in Merimbula on Thursday 30 August as part of the "Meet the Candidates" night, hosted by the Merimbula News Weekly and the Merimbula Chamber ofCommerce.
Where: Sapphire
Club Merimbula
Duration: 2
minutes max
When: 30
August 2012
Why: Merimbula
local council 2012 elections
Hello
everyone,
My name is
Ivan McKay and
I’m up here
because I want you to put a number 1 in my box at the council election
– plus vote
for at least 4 other candidates…..
So that’s the
easy part over with.
The hard part
of course is why should you vote for me?
I have three
reasons:
First,
I think our
council should be better. But to fix things means changing the council. This is
why I’m here tonight.
Second,
I chose to
live here.
In fact I sold
everything to move here. It is my profound commitment to the shire which makes
me a good candidate for council. The very things that attracted me in the first
place are the things I now feel protective about: the natural beauty, our abundant
resources , the infrastructure and of course the lifestyle. I know how rare it
is to find all of these things in one place and I wont take them for granted.
What I didn’t
do was choose to live in a franchised blob of a town just like every other one
on the map – is this what we really want? I don’t.
And last but
not least, the third reason
you should vote
for me is I have the skills, experience and proven track record of just getting
things done.
I will be
transparent and consistent in my decisions and I will represent the community
as a first priority, every time.
These are serious
issues that all candidates should be able to demonstrate to you if we want your
vote.
And the only
way to be sure that these things are important to each candidate is to look at
their history, not their clever words or advertising.
And my track
record speaks for itself.
Prior to
moving here I was a successful engineer managing hundred million dollar
projects for SBS TV and Radio, rolling out infrastructure in councils just like
ours across Australia.
And since moving
I have been involved in many local community activities, like setting up the
Merimbula Mens Shed, being a Board Member of the Mumbulla Foundation, running
an Australian first IT “Start Up Camp” in Pambula, to name just a few - as well
as being a former small business owner, a devoted family man, owner/builder and
full time employee of a local training company.
In summary, if
you think counsellors should be capable, consistent and transparent in their
decisions, if you want genuine community representation, then things need to
change. Vote 1 Ivan McKay this election and make it happen.
Thank you
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